Posted on 06/19/2016 2:29:30 PM PDT by Morgana
Anton Yelchin died Sunday morning in “fatal traffic collision,” his representative confirmed to EW. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office told PEOPLE that his body “was found pinned between a car and a gate at a home in Studio City, California” and that an exact cause of death will not be announced until the autopsy is complete. He was 27.
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Saw this on Foxnews. This sucks!
Damn - sounds like he didn’t set the parking brake, walked back down the driveway to get his mail - and got crushed by his own car when it rolled back.
He’s dead Jim.
His family and friends must be devastated!
Prayers for him and his family.
need to find a way to prevent this from happening in cars? Anti-roll if no one inside at steering wheel. I am being serious, children have died in similar accidents. . Sad to learn he has died.
There are certain jobs where it’s good policy to at least let a second person know what you’re about to do.
When I go to the local gym, most people work on the free weights in pairs, with somebody standing very near in case the weight becomes too much.
I’m guessing he did have it on, but did not have it in park. If he’s in a hurry, he’s not going to want to take the time to restart his vehicle. He just wants to zoom.
photo of his home’s driveway and front gate damage at tmz.com
Why not add the same sensor to the driver’s seat as is in the front passenger seat. The one that enables the airbag. Then you just need to add an engine cutoff, or an automated brake.
Very, very sad. He seemed like a nice young man, gone way too soon.
Regards,
Why should your car have to think for you?
What a Twilight Zone way to go.
Because we recognize human fallibility, and as higher order beings we search for practice ways to mitigate human nature. Such as having two switches to operate a heavy press so a person doesn’t sever a hand, or a dead man feature on a locomotive.
Clear case of foul play.
One problem with "automating safety" can be that the public comes to rely on it, and doesn't understand that the technology is not perfectly reliable. Sometimes the rate of accidents actually increases as the technology "evolves."
This sort of accident is much less like in Europe, because drivers there habitually use the hand or parking brake, which is by far more reliable than "putting it in park", which is susceptible to brain farts, something we do without thinking, so automatic and done so often that sometimes we confuse thinking about the action with doing the action.
Not to say your idea isn't potentially a good one. Just saying that human nature is a huge part of safety.
Was he the new Chekov?
Oh I agree. If you are going to operate a motor vehicle, you should pay attention to what you’re doing. Just spit balling, how could technology keep us safer from the inattentive.
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